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Is it possible to set a site specific Referer, the same way as site specific UserAgents are set? I already saw that the UserAgents are stored in kio_httprc. I would like to write a little patch that reads Referers from this file (kio_httprc) the same way as it reads the UserAgents:

Something like:
[somesite.com]
UserAgent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 9
Referer=http://www.somereferer.com

The problem is that I can't seem to find in which sourcefile the UserAgent from kio_httprc is read and then set for the httprequest. There are so many possible places (konqueror, libkonq, kio_http, kcontrol, ...).

Does anyone know where this file is?

And does anyone with a lot of knowledge about the workings of Konqueror/kio_http know if what I want can be done as easily as I think?

Thanks in advance for your interest!

Sorry it took me so long to reply, but understanding how a webpage gets fetched in KDE takes a long time (and I'm still not done).

As far as I can see, nor the user-agent, nor the referer get set at the kio_http code, because kio_http just does a metaData("referrer") and metaData("UserAgent")

What I can't seem to find is where the UserAgent metaData gets set. But that's not why I decided to write again. I'm writing this because I found out that setting a custom referer ALREADY WORKS!

...But there is a catch

If you edit ~/.kde/share/config/kio_httprc

adding a section for a site with a custom referer (I tested with my own server):

[127.0.0.1]
referrer=http://www.fake.com/

it doesn't work, BUT if you change the User-Agent in Konqueror it works the first time you reload the page. After that, the User-Agent remains changed, but the referer goes back to the real one.

This makes me think it's even more trivial than I already thought, but I still don't understand how the whole mechanism works, or this behaviour wouldn't have surprised me so much.

Is there anyone with enough knowledge about Konqueror's page fetching mechanism to explain what's really happening here. The more KDE code I read, the more lost I get...

Thanks again!